Writing is a real fight. I've been at it for nearly five hours, and I'm starting again with nothing. The blog as a medium is one that I was introduced to through my dad, who wanted to put every details of our family's life onto his blog for many...
How do I sit still while the planet is dying? The bees are dead The big boss is up in his tower My face is red Yelling, but there's soundproof glass around him He's counting all the mountains of money around him How would you feel if you got cheated out...
Every month, I get one paycheck for my creative work through Patreon. I write 6 or 7 days a week, usually about 500-2,000 words per day. This has been my habit for over a decade. I have written several books, none of which I found worth pitching to agents or publishers, merely the practice...
It feels incredibly selfish of me to break the silence on my birthday. It just seems like a neutral time to talk about myself, I guess. There’s so much that deserves attention. I am overwhelmed by how much there is to write. Specific essays form lengthy outlines across dozens of documents that I don’...
It’s already June, and I feel like I’m still recovering from March. Countless more important things are going on than my personal family drama, so instead of writing about it, I want to write about what it’s been like to go beyond it and establish a personal identity. It has not been...
"Don't use your memoir to air old grievances and to settle old scores; get rid of that anger somewhere else. The memoirs that we do remember from the 1990s are the ones that were written with love and forgiveness…although the childhoods they describe were painful, the writers are as hard on...
